Chapter CXIX: Chapter whereby one entereth or goeth forth from Restau

I am the Mighty one, who createth his own light.

I come to thee, Osiris, and I worship thee.

Pure are thine effluxes,(1.) which flow from thee,(2.) and which make thy name in Restau, when it hath passed there.

Hail to thee, Osiris, in thy power and thy might, who hast possession of Restau.

Osiris raiseth thee up in thy power and in thy might. Osiris raiseth thee up in thy power in Restau, and in thy might in Abydos, that thou mayest go round heaven with Rā, and survey the human race.[108]

One art thou and triumphant.

NOTES.

1. _Pure are thine effluxes._ The true reading is ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, a phrase which recurs in these texts. The suffix ⁂ of the first person, which is sometimes added to the first word, would give the sense “thine effluxes are my purification.” On the meaning of ⁂⁂⁂, _see_ 63 B, note 4. At the end of Chapter 149 the deceased prays, “let me be joined, let me be united with the sap which proceedeth from Osiris; let me not be parted from him.”

2. _Which flow from thee._ ⁂⁂⁂⁂, _sta_, which has here the same meaning as when the Nile is said (_Denkm._, III, 13) _to flow into the Great Sea_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. The name of Restau is here derived from the effluxes _flowing_ (_stau_) from Osiris.

The various meanings of ⁂⁂⁂⁂, and of the Coptic ⲥⲉⲧ, are all traceable to the notion of _sending forth_, _throwing_, and are easily illustrated from the Greek. Thus ἐκβάλλειν is used for the discharge of a river into the sea; ἐκβολαὶ are ‘passes, passages.’ Doors are secured by pushing the bolts, μοχλοὺς ἐπιβάλλειν; they are opened by _shooting back the bolt_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂ (Mariette, _Abydos_, p. 58). ⁂⁂⁂⁂ is exactly the reverse of ἐπιβάλλειν σφραγῖδα. ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂, ⲥⲟⲧ, _stercus_ is an ἐκβολή, _dejectio_. And ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂, ⲥⲀϯ, ⲥⲟⲧⲉ, βέλος, βολὶς, ⁂⁂⁂, ⲥⲁⲧ, _seminare_, and ever so many others are all determinations of one and the same concept.

In such passages as ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ and the like, _sta_ has the sense not of _towing_, but of πομπή, ‘solemn _procession_.’ It occurs even where towing is out of question, _e.g._, in the march of military men ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (Tombs of Amenemheb and Pehsukher, _Miss. Arch. Française_, V, pp. 229 and 289).

And ⁂⁂ _string_, _rope_ is connected with the notion of ‘throwing’ like our own _warp_ with _werfen_ (Goth. _vairp-an_) and ῥίπ-τω.

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Footnote 108:

The ⁂⁂⁂⁂, _Rechit_, mankind actually, living, as
distinguished from the dead or yet unborn.